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How Fear Became Part of the AI Hype Machine | The Listening Post 26 min
26 min · A series of warnings from artificial intelligence (AI) industry insiders shows how the debate around AI drives extreme news cycles, swinging between hype and alarm.
The Epstein Files Cover-up: Botched or Calculated? | The Listening Post 26 min
26 min · The latest tranche of the Epstein files contains more than three million documents - the largest release of its kind. In what appears to be a clumsy attempt at a cover-up by the US...
Chris Hedges on Trump, Epstein and the Decline of American Democracy | UpFront 25 min
25 min · One year into Donald Trump’s return to office, a wave of hardline actions - from volatile ICE raids to growing concern over political pressure on the media - has raised alarm about the...
How Trump Sold the Attack on Venezuela | The Listening Post 25 min
25 min · After months of Washington - with the help of much of the US mainstream media - manufacturing consent for a military intervention in Venezuela, last week American forces abducted the...
The War in Yemen is Now World's Largest Humanitarian Crisis 3 min
3 min · The world's largest humanitarian crisis is not in Syria. It's in Yemen. So says the United Nations, highlighting the grave consequences of a conflict that has left 18.8 million people...
Framed: The Politics of Stereotypes in News 2 min
2 min · Palestinian academic Edward Said’s (1935-2003) book ‘Orientalism’ showed how the West had the power to represent the colonial ‘other’ - while at once leaving them voiceless.
Digital Prophecies: The Medium Is the Message 2 min
2 min · In the 1960s, way before anybody had ever tweeted, Facebook Live-d or sent classified information to WikiLeaks, one man made a series of pronouncements about the changing media...
How to Read the Signs in the News 3 min
3 min · Roland Barthes The work of French philosopher Roland Barthes (1915-1980) is difficult, slippery, whimsical - it calls on us to read the world around us as a series of texts. He would...
Stuart Hall: Race, Gender, Class: The Politics of News 3 min
3 min · Known as the ‘Godfather of Multiculturalism’, Stuart Hall (1932-2014) gave us tools to understand how representation is always imbued with ideology - and how to resist.
My Cuba - An Intimate Look at the Pleasures and Struggles of 6 Different People's Cuba 150 min
150 min · Cuba - diverse, vibrant and complex - is undergoing immense change. But what does it mean to be Cuban in this time of change? Six people. Six films. From the comedy and ballet worlds of...
Why the World Fears Refugees 3 min
3 min · Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, says many Europeans' fear of refugees boils down to the idea of the "precariat" - people whose lives are marked by...
Weakened, Cold and Starving to Death in Syrian Town 2 min
2 min · Syrian families in the besieged town of Madaya say they are starving to death. Al Jazeera's Jamal El Shayyal's reports.
Riz Khan - The Role of Media in the USA 22 min
22 min · Has the mainstream media in the US replaced serious coverage with "junk news" and tabloidism?
Economic Hit Men: How The Developed World Robs the Third 17 min
17 min · Riz Khan talks to John Perkins about his book on global corruption. Perkin's book, entitled "Confessions of an Economic Hit man," was on the New York Times best seller list when it was...
How Electronic Voting Machines Could Steal Our Democracy 12 min
12 min · The Riz Khan show looks at how electronic voting could be manipulated to flip the outcome of the 2008 US presidential election. A great 12 minute synopsis of the issue, up to the minute...
Obama's fiercest opponent in Ohio? Misinformation and Prejudice 2 min
2 min · As the US presidential campaign enters its final weeks, both the Republican and Democratic candidates are hitting the swing states. But misconceptions and rumors abound and many voters...
Big Agriculture's Exploitation of Migrant Workers 15 min
15 min · The big business of farming in the US is booming but undocumented migrants make up more than half of the farming workforce. They are ripe for exploitation and face low salaries...
A Greener China Bans free plastic bags 2 min
2 min · China is banning shops and supermarkets from handing out free plastic bags, and calling for a return to the cloth bags of old. The ban, which was posted on a government website on...
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